Name a bodily function or biological process (like breathing)

November 11, 2026 · Daily Dive #119

Explore 1,926 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on November 11, 2026.

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1,926 recorded names on November 11, 2026, 1,708 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Work down the body from skin inward and from chemistry outward, because the scoring grid rewards processes registered in anatomy, physiology and biochemistry alike. Count any named function or process a living body performs, including cellular and molecular ones, but not organs, diseases, single chemicals or techniques carried out in a laboratory.

1,926 recorded answers1,708 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,70785 pts
  • Rare17360 pts
  • Schooler3830 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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Recorded answers

1,926 recorded answers

How to approach it

Begin by sketching a rough map of everything a living body does, from gross functions visible to an observer down to events inside a single cell, and keep the map open rather than committing to a shortlist. Then test each candidate against the wording: if it names a thing rather than an activity, set it aside. Convert whatever survives into the most precise technical term you know, because the scoring rewards specificity and penalises vague umbrella words that thousands of other players will also submit. Fill gaps in the map systematically — one pass for mechanical actions, one for chemical conversions, one for control and signalling events — and submit the most obscure accurate term you can defend, since common everyday phrasing saturates quickly.

Get a hint

Start at the scale of whole systems and keep descending: the accepted list treats events at the level of organs, tissues, cells and molecules as equally valid entries.

A little more

Ask what a body does rather than what it has; verbs and nominalised actions are accepted, while structures, conditions and measurements are not, so phrase every candidate as something that happens.

One step further

Rarer, more technical entries have paid the most, so push past the obvious everyday actions into named events from physiology and biochemistry textbooks, where most players never look.

Reveal answers 1,926
  • Snout reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Social cognitionDeep Cut85points
  • Sodium-potassium pumpDeep Cut85points
  • Solvent dragDeep Cut85points
  • Somatic hypermutationDeep Cut85points
  • Somatostatin secretionDeep Cut85points
  • SomitogenesisDeep Cut85points
  • Sound conductionDeep Cut85points
  • Sound localizationDeep Cut85points
  • Sound transductionDeep Cut85points
  • Sour taste perceptionDeep Cut85points
  • Space perceptionDeep Cut85points
  • Spatial cognitionDeep Cut85points
  • Spatial learningDeep Cut85points
  • Spatial memoryDeep Cut85points
  • Spatial navigationDeep Cut85points
  • Spatial orientationDeep Cut85points
  • Specific dynamic actionDeep Cut85points
  • Speech perceptionDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm agglutinationDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm capacitationDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm maturationDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm motilityDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm storageDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm transportDeep Cut85points
  • Sperm-ovum interactionDeep Cut85points
  • SpermarcheDeep Cut85points
  • SpermatocytogenesisDeep Cut85points
  • SpermiogenesisDeep Cut85points
  • Sphincteric reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Sphingolipid metabolismDeep Cut85points
  • Spike-timing-dependent plasticityDeep Cut85points
  • Spinal cord developmentDeep Cut85points
  • Spinal reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Spindle formationDeep Cut85points
  • SpittingDeep Cut85points
  • Splanchnic circulationDeep Cut85points
  • Spleen contractionDeep Cut85points
  • Splenic filtrationDeep Cut85points
  • Spontaneous otoacoustic emissionsDeep Cut85points
  • Spontaneous recoveryDeep Cut85points
  • SpottingDeep Cut85points
  • SquintingDeep Cut85points
  • Starch and sucrose metabolismDeep Cut85points
  • Starch digestionDeep Cut85points
  • Starvation responseDeep Cut85points
  • Staufen-mediated mRNA decayDeep Cut85points
  • Stem cell exhaustionDeep Cut85points
  • Stem cell self-renewalDeep Cut85points
  • Stepping reflexDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Points here track how crowded a slot is, not how impressive the term sounds. The reveal held 1926 recorded answers, yet only 1881 cleared the sixty-point threshold, and the distribution is lopsided: a single answer took 100, 1707 sat at 85 and just 173 landed at 60. That shape tells you the middle band was enormous — a long tail of technical vocabulary that almost nobody else thought of — while the bottom of the scale was reserved for a small set of phrases so obvious that they were effectively shared property. Nasal cycle, at 100, was the lone standout, and entries such as 5' capping, Abdominal reflex and Acrosome reaction sit at 85: precise, textbook-register events that read as specialised even to players who recognise them. Everyday wording pulled the 60-point crowd. The practical lesson is that specificity, not familiarity, is what separates a good answer from a scoring one.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 11 Nov, 05:00 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy